THE TRAINING OF GIRLS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 99, 28 April 1928, Page 15

THE TRAINING OF GIRLS

In Iho "Landmark," the magazine of Iho i'lnglisli-spoaking Union, which tsooms to 1)0 growing steadily more and more, inlorestiug, Urn following appears about the Iraining of girls: Miss .!-. M. Faithful, formerly head mistress of .Cheltenham Ladies' College, speaking at the annual coufereiice of. educational associations at University College, had some pithy things to say about Iho "corporate" life ol: girls and women which marked Iho present age. She. was pjirlicularly interesting in her contra,st of tlio girl brought lip lit .school and the girl brought up til. home. Slut stated that if she were to sum up Iho ditTorenno between Iho ■homebred girl nnd Ilio school girl she would say that the individual nl home had often 100 much 1111 i'iiLion, that the individual at school had 100 lilllo; the. homo encouraged the formation of ideas and opinions and general knowledge; the school supplied exact, knowledge, well informed and trained minds, and raised for all the standard of learning. The homebred child might be ignorant, lopsided, and odd. The school child might be limited in interests all round and dull, .for a. large number of girls and boys who would have a blameless, but i|iiite undistinguished career, who responded to the stimulus of class work and did I heir best in company wilh others, schrtol was most desirable. Individual weakness found strength in corporate action; fear was. overcome in company with others. yho was a believer in individualism, and wuw dreadfully afraid that it was being discouraged, if not crushed, by community life. It would be well if in tlio schools they did all they could to proven I 100 great a. (lopendnucn of pupils on each other, nnd forbiulo Ilio production of cai'ofnlly composed rechauffes of critical 1111111----ors' or loclurcrs' views, All preparation .should entail, as far as possible, individual research, however simple to j'orin. They iilmo needed to 'beware of over-lunching especially for examinations.